Mumbai The missing ingredient in all of the pieces of the India FDI Watch Campaign has been having an independent mass base that we could bring to the table to augment the strength of our alliance partners. We needed our own strike force for actions, and, just as in Delhi with the work among …
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Rebranding Community Organizing
Mumbai In the wild, web-by way of these things, I got an email from Jose Manual Escobido working with El Paso ACORN sending me a comment he thought would interest me about “rebranding community organizing” written by Lisa Ranghelli, now working with the National Center for Responsive Philanthropy in Washington, DC. We know Lisa …
ACORN Waste Pickers First Meeting
Delhi Having enrolled 1,000 members in the last several months into ACORN India’s first major organizing project in Delhi among informal workers working as waste pickers, the highlight of my trip was being able to be part of the first major organizing meeting of 50 delegates from the ACORN Waste Pickers in the …